I keep hearing this, but if you hang to plumb bobs near any mass, they don't hang parallel. Hang two plumb bobs in an accelerating ship and they do. Doesn't appear "==" to me.
I've been using Linux since 0.12. I know what I'm doing. The sound configuration sucks. I have yet to get my Compaq Presario 1900T NeoMagic sound card to work with a stock kernel. It did work with the commercial OSS sound drivers, but I let my license laps years ago.
Sounds fails on many other machines I've used also. I bought a plain jane es1371 to keep in what ever my current workstation is, just to have reliable sound.
Just compare the sound configuration to something like the IDE configuration. You drives always work. They may be slow and can be3 tweaked, but they always work. Sound fails with something like
init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
Whats that song about a guy sitting in a dinner named EAT when a little green man walk in and offers him a pill or cig. or something? I've been trying to think of it all day.
I tried this. I bought a trolling battery to replace the little battery in my APC 650 (something or other).
[yah, I'll head the warnings, move it out side and fuse at the terminal.]
I think I need to recalcbrate my APC unit though. There appears to be about 4 adjustments. One that I already made was to set the output voltage and frequency. They were way off with the new battery, which has me confused, because as far as I could tell, the voltage was the similar to the old battery (just over 12V). Does +/- 1 volt really matter for these setups? I think the other adjustments are for when to kick on and when to kick off, but I'm not sure how to set them. Any ideas?
The thing only runs for a few moments now before shutting off. Do the electronics go bad like the batteries? Did I just waste my time? Should I buy a new UPS?
su cd/usr/local tar zxvf/tmp/mozilla-firebird.*.gz
Uninstall firebird:
su rm -rf/usr/local/MozillaFirebird
This is the way my Dad has been installing and uninstalling on his windows box for years. Goes without saying that he has a bunch of application that show up in his current application list that arent' really there anymore. (win98)
What is stupid is a package installing files all over the place instead of a single directory that can be nuked when required.
So you can't then convert to opening a tcp connection right? It must stay UDP? (I missed this point earlier).
Cool. It does work for UDP! (with my simple netcat testing)
Using 'netcat -e', I can proxy a socket from inside a LAN to inside another LAN, but it is lossy. Anyone seen something like netcat that implements resends (like TCP) on UDP?
Our users running VPN machines from home, are not allowed any inbound connections. As far as I can tell, Gatekeeper doesn't help them. I haven't found a way to use h323 without allowing inbound connections right?
I was hoping that the gatekeeper protocol would use a single TCP connection initiated from the client, but I don't beleive that is true.
In college, back in 90-94, we used duct tape on the "subs", which where just some old ported speakers with the high end burned out. They were over driven so badly, that the tape didn't effect the sound quality at all; it just kept junk out of the enclosures.
I beleive they eventually caught fire at my brother's house when he drove them with 200W+.
I disagree. My brother has a law degree. I see so many parallels between his job and my job. Essentially we have to use logic to solve constrained problems. He uses contracts to build his product and the judicial system to test and I use a compiler and jUnit. (The main difference is I make positive assumptions about my constraints (I assume implementations work if undocumented), while he assumes the negative (unless a contract indicates payment, assume you wont get paid).)
Just like his law degree will help him in business, I think a CS degree (or law degree for that matter) could easily help a professional in a less organizationally demanding profession like medicine or engineering.
When I was in 5th and 6th grade I wrote a 2D "lunar lander" program. It just read key strokes and applied acceleration to the lander (not speed) up, left and right. The lander had to land on a pad with less than a certain speed (both lateral and vertical). It was pretty easy to do with character graphics on the TS1000, then I recoded it with sprites and sound on the C64.
I also wrote a simple drawing program (not gimp:-). Using a toolkit like glade/gtk it could be a real learning project. I learned all about trig and geometry by implementing all the spirals, flowers, circles and arcs fromt he front of my Mom's "little blue book" (some early 1960's college math reference).
Concentrate on the logic, not the programming.
I had no mentor to ask questions of, just Byte and some old books. I definitely wasn't "gifted from a mathematics and computer standpoint", so I'd expect that anyone with interest could get the job done in a couple weeks.
I think the big thing to realize is that a program is a design. There is always room for improvement, so it is never done. It takes many little iterations to get it right.
I've seen too many people dump programming after one class because the dialog panel with the two button that took them a whole hour to produce isn't very exciting. What they don't understand is that every program is like that. There are huge chunks that just take a lot of work, but don't seem very useful.
I've found crimes that I could commit that would result in a couple million dollars payout, but would result in me leaving the country and being on the run. I think I could do it, but I also think that the life style would be uncomfortable at best. (I have a wife, kids, close family, friends, and toys that I'd have to leave behind.)
I am well on my way to making the couple million I would have stolen (spending along the way, so I will miss the one time big pile 'o money) with a comfortable, respectable life style not on the run from authorities.
I see in the paper guys going to jail for robbing a video store. Is jail worth a couple hundred bucks?! The risk/reward is lousy for theft. I don't understand what they ar thinking.
I telecommute. My rates are about 85% of the going rate, but my living expenses are much lower. Granted I need to work a bit harder (more travel and tougher sales), but it works for me.
The guys up the hall do CADs work for structural steel companies all over the country. Steve's just out of school and has a 4,000+ sq ft home, two new cars and is supporting 4 kids.
If you are looking for employment, you are right. If you are looking for work, there is lots of work out there; you just have to find it.
Dad built a new mount for his 13" dob that was lighter than the original.
He started with the standard cardboard tube, but other than that tried to make it as light as possible for mobilility.
What he found was that ballance isn't so hard, just use large washers for counter weights, but the lightweight scope jiggles more that the heaver scope. Also the force to break the teflon bearings loose jars everything more when there is less mass to move.
Dad has a 13" dob. He put kid's bike tires on it. To move it, he locks the tube in the base with a wing nut and bolt, then tips the whole thing over onto the wheels.
Before this, when I was in high school, he would wake me up at 3 am to help him put the scope away. (now I'm 32)
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gravity == acceleration
I keep hearing this, but if you hang to plumb bobs near any mass, they don't hang parallel. Hang two plumb bobs in an accelerating ship and they do. Doesn't appear "==" to me.
Joe
I've been using Linux since 0.12. I know what I'm doing. The sound configuration sucks. I have yet to get my Compaq Presario 1900T NeoMagic sound card to work with a stock kernel. It did work with the commercial OSS sound drivers, but I let my license laps years ago.
Sounds fails on many other machines I've used also. I bought a plain jane es1371 to keep in what ever my current workstation is, just to have reliable sound.
Just compare the sound configuration to something like the IDE configuration. You drives always work. They may be slow and can be3 tweaked, but they always work. Sound fails with something like
init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
Joe
Whats that song about a guy sitting in a dinner named EAT when a little green man walk in and offers him a pill or cig. or something? I've been trying to think of it all day.
It goes like this. dah, dah, dah, dah...
Joe
From http://www.cray.com/products/systems/xd1/techsumma ry.html
Six 2-way SMPs per chassis
It is even running linux.
Cray HPC-enhanced Linux, Kernel version 2.4.21
There are claims of single image, shared memory and message passing support on that page. I think you can also wash dishes in it.
Joe
We do a similar thing in Java with anonymous classes.
new StopWatch(2000) { public void run() {
frozzle(blah);
}}.start();
where StopWatch is a class that executes the run method for up to 2000 ms. Granted some syntactic sugar would be nice.
I agree with yuour assertion that blocks are extrememly helpful. I was first introduced to them in Smalltalk.
Joe
I tried this. I bought a trolling battery to replace the little battery in my APC 650 (something or other).
[yah, I'll head the warnings, move it out side and fuse at the terminal.]
I think I need to recalcbrate my APC unit though. There appears to be about 4 adjustments. One that I already made was to set the output voltage and frequency. They were way off with the new battery, which has me confused, because as far as I could tell, the voltage was the similar to the old battery (just over 12V). Does +/- 1 volt really matter for these setups? I think the other adjustments are for when to kick on and when to kick off, but I'm not sure how to set them. Any ideas?
The thing only runs for a few moments now before shutting off. Do the electronics go bad like the batteries? Did I just waste my time? Should I buy a new UPS?
Joe
Install firebird:
/usr/local /tmp/mozilla-firebird.*.gz
/usr/local/MozillaFirebird
su
cd
tar zxvf
Uninstall firebird:
su
rm -rf
This is the way my Dad has been installing and uninstalling on his windows box for years. Goes without saying that he has a bunch of application that show up in his current application list that arent' really there anymore. (win98)
What is stupid is a package installing files all over the place instead of a single directory that can be nuked when required.
Joe
So you can't then convert to opening a tcp connection right? It must stay UDP? (I missed this point earlier).
Cool. It does work for UDP! (with my simple netcat testing)
Using 'netcat -e', I can proxy a socket from inside a LAN to inside another LAN, but it is lossy. Anyone seen something like netcat that implements resends (like TCP) on UDP?
Joe
What there is active?
Active mail would be mail that has the program in it. It doesn't involve servers validating/processing messages, but messages doing stuff to clients.
Joe
Our users running VPN machines from home, are not allowed any inbound connections. As far as I can tell, Gatekeeper doesn't help them. I haven't found a way to use h323 without allowing inbound connections right?
I was hoping that the gatekeeper protocol would use a single TCP connection initiated from the client, but I don't beleive that is true.
Joe
Can you supply a reference that demonstrates this at work or post an example?
Joe
You didn't use enough tape then!
In college, back in 90-94, we used duct tape on the "subs", which where just some old ported speakers with the high end burned out. They were over driven so badly, that the tape didn't effect the sound quality at all; it just kept junk out of the enclosures.
I beleive they eventually caught fire at my brother's house when he drove them with 200W+.
Joe
I disagree. My brother has a law degree. I see so many parallels between his job and my job. Essentially we have to use logic to solve constrained problems. He uses contracts to build his product and the judicial system to test and I use a compiler and jUnit. (The main difference is I make positive assumptions about my constraints (I assume implementations work if undocumented), while he assumes the negative (unless a contract indicates payment, assume you wont get paid).)
Just like his law degree will help him in business, I think a CS degree (or law degree for that matter) could easily help a professional in a less organizationally demanding profession like medicine or engineering.
Joe
So why didn't they wrap the secrets in a more abstract interface? Why must the software API expose these secrets?
Joe
Clusting with something like MOSIX just got easier.
Joe
When I was in 5th and 6th grade I wrote a 2D "lunar lander" program. It just read key strokes and applied acceleration to the lander (not speed) up, left and right. The lander had to land on a pad with less than a certain speed (both lateral and vertical). It was pretty easy to do with character graphics on the TS1000, then I recoded it with sprites and sound on the C64.
:-). Using a toolkit like glade/gtk it could be a real learning project. I learned all about trig and geometry by implementing all the spirals, flowers, circles and arcs fromt he front of my Mom's "little blue book" (some early 1960's college math reference).
I also wrote a simple drawing program (not gimp
Concentrate on the logic, not the programming.
I had no mentor to ask questions of, just Byte and some old books. I definitely wasn't "gifted from a mathematics and computer standpoint", so I'd expect that anyone with interest could get the job done in a couple weeks.
I think the big thing to realize is that a program is a design. There is always room for improvement, so it is never done. It takes many little iterations to get it right.
I've seen too many people dump programming after one class because the dialog panel with the two button that took them a whole hour to produce isn't very exciting. What they don't understand is that every program is like that. There are huge chunks that just take a lot of work, but don't seem very useful.
That's all I've got for a precoffee lecture.
Joe
As it is now, it is cheaper to rent a car to travel Fort Wayne to Detriot than to take a bus! (and there isn't train service)
Joe
I've had a dickens of a time learning about 'xv' (it is hard to google for).
What is 'xv' and why doesn't my ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 39) and XFree86 Version 4.2.1.1 support it?
Joe
I've found crimes that I could commit that would result in a couple million dollars payout, but would result in me leaving the country and being on the run. I think I could do it, but I also think that the life style would be uncomfortable at best. (I have a wife, kids, close family, friends, and toys that I'd have to leave behind.)
I am well on my way to making the couple million I would have stolen (spending along the way, so I will miss the one time big pile 'o money) with a comfortable, respectable life style not on the run from authorities.
I see in the paper guys going to jail for robbing a video store. Is jail worth a couple hundred bucks?! The risk/reward is lousy for theft. I don't understand what they ar thinking.
Joe
I telecommute. My rates are about 85% of the going rate, but my living expenses are much lower. Granted I need to work a bit harder (more travel and tougher sales), but it works for me.
The guys up the hall do CADs work for structural steel companies all over the country. Steve's just out of school and has a 4,000+ sq ft home, two new cars and is supporting 4 kids.
If you are looking for employment, you are right. If you are looking for work, there is lots of work out there; you just have to find it.
Joe
You don't have to leave the country.
? lo cIndex=5667
Our median house value is $67,000.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/housOverview.php
Joe Batt
Dad built a new mount for his 13" dob that was lighter than the original.
He started with the standard cardboard tube, but other than that tried to make it as light as possible for mobilility.
What he found was that ballance isn't so hard, just use large washers for counter weights, but the lightweight scope jiggles more that the heaver scope. Also the force to break the teflon bearings loose jars everything more when there is less mass to move.
Joe
Dad has a 13" dob. He put kid's bike tires on it. To move it, he locks the tube in the base with a wing nut and bolt, then tips the whole thing over onto the wheels.
Before this, when I was in high school, he would wake me up at 3 am to help him put the scope away. (now I'm 32)
Joe
It was too expensive.
The problem is, if you don't have one, there isn't much of a hack to replace it. I've used a lag screw, but I ended up with cork in my wine.
Joe